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Discussion on: 13 API Metrics That Every Platform Team Should be Tracking

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Alexandra Grazhevskaja

Thank you for structuring these important metrics, it's always useful to remind yourself about such tips.
I work in Aspose - a vendor of hundreds of APIs and we know very well the importance to follow such metrics.
I also like the characteristics of a good API proposed by Google developers:
• Easy to learn
• Easy to use, even without documentation
• Hard to misuse
• Easy to read and maintain code that uses it
• Sufficiently powerful to satisfy requirements
• Easy to extend
• Appropriate to audience

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K

You are welcome!

Yes, these characteristics are very important. Especially the "hard to misuse" part, haha.